Time-recorder.



W. D. HAWLEY.

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TIME RECORDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 14, 1913.

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APPLICATION FILED MAR. 14. 1913.

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WILLIAM B. HAVTLEY, OF SYRACUSE, NEJV' YORK, ASSIGNOR TO MDITI'TEQE TIME CLOCK 00., F SYRACUSE, NE'W YORK, A COBIPORATION OF NEW/V YGEK.

TIME-RECORDER.

Application filed March 14, 1913.

1 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, WILLIAM D. HAwLnY, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Time-Recorder, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object the pro duction of a time recorder, and particularly to means for positioning the card relatively to the printing mechanism and for controlling the printing operation of the card, and the invention consists in the combinations and constructions hereinafter set forth and claimed. Other objects will appear throughout the specification.

In describing this invention reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which like characters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a front elevation, partly broken away, of my time recorder. Fig. 1 is a detail fragmentary View of the lower portion of the frame and case, illustrating the entrance piece as reversed from its position shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 2 is an enlarged rear elevation of the mechanism shown in the lower portion of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan View of the base of the frame, partly broken away, the card holder and a portion of the lock mechanism operated thereby be ing also shown. Fig. 1 is a detail view illustrating the lock mechanism and contiguous parts as seen looking to the right in Fig. 2. Fig. is a detail View illustrating the printing element in section and the arrangement of the inking sheet and contiguous parts. G is a fragmentary view illustrating the means for feeding the inking sheet. Fi 7 is a face view of the printing element and the contiguous part of the frame with which it coacts. Fig. 8 is a face View of the card used in my time recorder but one of the charts with which the card is provided being shown in full, the positions of the other charts being indicated by circles.

This time recorder comprises, generally, a franc formed ith guides, printing mechanism including a manually operable member. a card holder movable along the guides and shift-able bodily from one guide to the oth the card holder being also shiftable to different depthsin the guides, means for determining the position of the card holder in each guide, a lock for normally preventoperation of said member, and means Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan.

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for releasing the lock, said means being arranged to be operated by the card in the card holder. The invention also includes novel means for feeding the transfer or inking sheet or disk. Some of the foregoing features may, however, be omitted if desired.

I have here illustrated my invention as applied to the type of clock disclosed in my pending application Sr. No. 595,602, filed Dec. 5, 1910, which is what is known as a daily recorder, that is, it records on cards of sufficient capacity to contain a workmans time record for one day of twenty four hours. The time recorder here illustrated is a weekly recorder, that is, adapted to print on cards which receive the records of several days or a week.

The frame includes a base 1 and the frame proper mounted on the base and suppor ing the clock mechanism located behind the dial 3 and the greater part of the other mechanism of this recorder. A casing l is mounted on the base and secured thereto in any suitable manner, the casing including a hinged door 1 on the front side of the case.

The printing mechanism is with a few changes substantially as shown in my pending application referred to and includes a rotating head 4 carried at the lower end of a vertical shaft 5 which is connected to the minute hand shaft of the time movement to rotate in synchronism therewith, a movable member 6 carried by said head and having a type '7 and a manually operable member for actuating the movable member 6 to make an impression.

The type carryii'ig member 6 is designed to print an index character on charts consisting of two concentric dials as 8 and 9, as indicated on the card 10 shown in Fig. 8, and the member 6 is shiftable radially at Pi'(lti111l11(l intervals to shift the type 7 thereof toward or from the axis of the shaft to print on the outer dial 8 or on the inner dial 9. If a record is made during the day period the type prints on the outer dial 8 and if a record is made. in the night period, the type prints on the inner dial 9. 0n the card shown there are six charts arranged in two rows, each containing three charts, the charts of one row representing the first three work days Monday, Tuesday and EVednes-day, and those of the other row representing Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

But one of the charts is shown complete, the others being designated by circles.

The member 6 is pivoted at one end to a carriage 11, see Fig. 5, and is movable on its pivot to make a record, and the carriage is shiftable radially in suitable guides in the head 4. The shifting of the carriage 1.1 is accomplished by means of a gear 12, Figs. 2 and 7, having diametrically opposite flattened portions formed by shortening diametrically opposite teeth 13, a circular track 14: fixed relatively to the frame 2, and teeth 15 interrupting the track, the gear being slidable along the track 1 1, and the teeth thereof coacting with the gear teeth 15 in said track. The gear 12 is mounted on one end of a shaft 16 journaled in bearings in the head e, and a disk 17 is mounted on the inner end of said shaft, the disk being connected to the element 6 by a connecting rod 18 pivoted at one end to an eccentric on the disk 17 and at its other end to the element 6 as seen in Figs. 5 and 7. The pivotal movement of the element 6 is against the action of a returning spring 19. The track l-i and teeth are provided on a disk shaped body 14L fixed to the frame 2 and having a hub 1r encircling the shaft 5.

In operation, during the rotation of the shaft 5 one or the other of the flattened portions 13 of the gear 12 slides along the track 14: so that no motion is transferred by the gear 12. When, however, the gear reaches the teeth 15 it is rotated one half of a turn causing the disk 17 to make onehalf of a turn and the motion thereof to be transmitted to the carriage 11 to shift the carriage radially in one direction. Obviously during two complete revolutions of -f.-0 the head 1 and shaft 5, the gear 15 makes one rotation and the carriage 11 makes a complete reciprocation.

The member 6 is actuated on its pivot to make a record by manually operated means consisting of a hammer 2O pivoted at 21 to the frame and coacting with a collar 22 slidable on the shaft 5, the collar 22 coacting with a rod 23, see Fig. 5, which extends through the hub 1 1 of the body 14 on which the track 14 is formed, the lower end of the rod 23 engaging the upper edge of the member 6. Obviously upon operation of the hammer, the member 6 will be depressed against the action of its returning spring 19. The hammer is bifurcated, as seen in Fig. 5, in order to strike on diametrically opposite sides of the collar 22.

The hammer is operated by means of a handle lever 2%, Figs. '1 and 2, mounted concentric with the hammer 20, the handle lever 24 carrying a latch 25 which coacts with a shoulder 26 provided on one side face of the hammer 20, see Fig. l, the latch being acted on by a spring 27 which holds the 65 same engaged with said shoulder, and having a tail 28 arranged to engage a suitable knock-off shoulder 29, when the handle lever has been moved a predetermined distance. During movement of the lever 24: in one direction it retracts the hammer and tensions its spring 30, and when the tail 28 of the latch engages the knock-off shoulder 29, the hammer is impelled in the other direction by its spring 80.

The spring 30 is not connected directly to the hammer but is connected to one arm of a lever 31 mounted on the pivot 21 of the hammer, the other arm 32 of said lever bearing against the rear edge of the hammer 20, this arm 32 being connected to the hammer by means of a spring 33, see Fig. 2. The lever 81 engages a shoulder 31 on the frame and normally holds the hammer 20 ofi the collar 22, and the spring 83 permits overthrow of the hammer in order that it will strike said collar.

The hammer 20 is returned to its starting position by means of a spring 34, Fig. 1. The hammer 20 carries a clapper 35 which cooperates with a bell 36 to notify L the operator when a record has been made.

The construction of the mechanism as thus far described is substantially the same with a few exceptions as that shown in my pending application referred to.

37 is the card holder adjustable laterally relatively to the element 6, and also to different depths into the frame, the base 1 of the frame being formed with a flat supporting surface 38 and with guides spaced apart, and the card holder resting on the fiat surface 38 and having means for engaging the guides and being shiftable bodily from one guide to the other to position the card laterally, that is, to shift one column consisting 1.

of three charts out of alinement with the printing element and to bring the other column into alinement with the printing element. The shifting of the holder to different depths into the frame is for the purpose of bringing diiferent charts in each.

column under the printing element.

As here shown the guides are in the form of grooves 39 arranged parallel to each other and opening through the surface 38, and the card holder 37 is formed with a tongue -10 for fitting the grooves, the tongue being located on the under side thereof. The grooves have undercut sides and the tongue is shaped to conform to the grooves as clearly seen in Fig. 2. The portion lying between the grooves 39 forms a barrier for preventing shifting of the card-holder laterally from one groove to the other, and hence the card-holder must be removed in the lengthwise direction from one groove, then shifted laterally and moved endwisely in the opposite direction in the other groove.

The frame is formed with a reversible entrance piece 41, Figs. 1 and 1, arranged beneath the door and in alinement therewith, this entrance piece having an opening 42 of substantially the width of the card holder 37 and located nearer one end of said piece than the other, and being reversible, for the purpose of positioning this opening so that the card can be inserted into the card holder when the card holder is engaged with the predetermined guide 39, the entrance piece preventing the insertion of the card into the machine at any other point except the card holder 37.

As before stated, the card holder 37 is adjustable to different depths into the frame, and the various positions to which it can be adjusted, when in either of the guides 39 in order to print on the first, second or third charts, that is, either the Monday, Tuesday or V' ednesday charts, of one column or the Thursday, Friday and Saturday charts in the other column, are determined by a catch common to both guides Said catch consists, as seen in Fig. 3, of a rectilinearly movable bolt l3 slidable in a groove e l extending across the grooves 39, the bolt d3 being arranged beneath the plane of the surface 28 and having shoulders 45 which project into said grooves and engage notches 4:6 in the sides of the tongue l0.

The bolt 43 is pressed into operative positions by a spring 47 and is moved out of operative position against the action of its spring by means of a handle 48 arranged ne; r one side of the case.

The spring 47 is arranged in a socket which opens through the side face of the has and this side face is lapped by the lower margin of the inclosing case 1 of the recorder. This case 1 is also provided with inturned lugs 49 on the front side thereof which engage with pins provided on the entrance piece 41 and hold the piece in position.

The tongue of the card holder is provided with three notches d6 spaced equidistant apart in order that the bolt :3 will engage with one of said notches when the and holder is adjusted to its proper depth into the frame along one or the other of the guides 39.

if the card liolder should be placed in the machine but should not be inserted to the proper position, that is, should be left so that the catch is between two of the notches -26, when the workman places his card in the holder. he will be unable to perate the l andle 2 until the card holder is pushed into the frame until one of the catches 4-5 enters one of the notches l6 and the card is pushed to its full extent until it is engaged with a stop 50 at the inner end of the card holder, Fig. 3.

The means for preventing the operation to be operated when the card is inserted to its full extent into the card holder, and means for transmitting the movement to the lock 51. The lock is also operable to prevent the making of a record in case the workman first properly inserts his card to its full extent in the holder against the shoulder 50 and hence operates the lock mechanism to move the lock 51 out of operative position, then only partly operates the handle 2% sulliciently to more the lever 31 out of alinement with the shoulder 5% and then shifts his card away from the shoulder 50 in order to position the card in order to make disaonest record. Said lock operates to catch the hammer in uplifted position so that it will not strike unless the card is in proper position in the card holder against the shoul der 50.

The loo: 51 comprises a depending link pivoted at 53 to the frame 1 and having a shoulder or notch 5st which normally receives an arm of the lever 31 and hence pre vents movement of the hammer 20 by the handle 24, the link having another shoulder or notch 5 arranged below the notch or shoulder 54- in position to receive the arm of the lever 31 should the lock 51 be permitted to return to its normal position by reason of the fact that the card is disengaged from the shoulder 50 and one of the shoulders to be described of the part or element 52. Said lock 51 normally hangs in a vertical position and is moved out of vertical line out of engagement with the arm of the lever 31 by the motion of the part 52 transmitted thereto and moves by gravity back into operative position. The part is arranged to cooperate with the card when the card holder is in either of the guides and when it is arranged to any de 3th in any of its adjusted positions in the frame, and this part is provided with suecessiv ly effective shoulders 56 and 5'? corresponding in number and positions to the positions to which the card holder can be adjusted 'rito the frame. is the card holder is capable of assuming three positions into the frame relative to the printing element, (as there are three charts in each row on the card) there are three successively arranged shoulders on the lock operating mechanism. Each shoulder except the last shoulder 57 has a cam surface 58 arranged in the path of a surface 59 at the inner edge of the card holder and each shoulder also having a stop surface (30 for engaging the ear edge of the card in order that tie movement of the card as it approaches its position toward the shoulder 50 will be transferred to the ele the arm of ment 50 and transmitted thereby to the lock 51. There are two surfaces 59 one for each lateral position of the card holder and said surfaces are at the bottoms of notches opening through the advance edge of the card holder. The surfaces 59 are arranged in a transverse line in the rear of the card stop shoulder 50, with respect to the movement of the holder into the frame, so that the shoulders 55 or 56 not pushed out of the way by the card holder, or the shoulder 57 will be arranged in nearly transverse alinement with the card stop 50.

The part 52 is here shown as pivoted at its rear end at 61 and as having a slot 62 for receiving its pivot so that said part 52 can be moved rectilinearly when. the stop surface 58 of one of the shoulders is engaged by the card. In the first position of the card holder in either of the guide grooves 39, the stop surface 60 of the first shoulder 55 is arranged to engage the rear edge of the card so that the card will operate with the element 52. As the card holder is adjusted inwardly so that the middle chart of either row of three charts will be alined with the printing element, one of the surfaces 59 atthe inner edge of the card holder will engage the cam surface 58 of the first shoulder 55 pushing said shoulder upwardly so that it will rest on the card holder when no card is in the card holder, thus when the card is inserted in the card holder the edge thereof will engage the cam surface 58 and force the part 52 upwardly on its pivot 61'and hence the inward movement of the card is not limited but may be continued until the inner edge of the card engages the stop face 60, of the second shoulder 56 and the shoulder 50 of the card holder. Likewise when the card holder is adjusted inwardly to its full extent, the second shoulder 55 is pushed out of the way and the third shoulder 5'? brought into effective relation with the card. The means for transmitting the movement of the part or element 52 to the lock 51 comprises a rock shaft see Figs. 2 and it, having an upwardly extending rock arm 6% at one end carrying a point 65 which bears against the lock 51, the shaft 63 having at its other end a downwardly extending rock arm 68 having a pin 67 at its lower end which works in a vertical slot 68 in the part 52.

The operation of the rock shaft 63 by the part or element 52 is against the influence of suitable returning means as 63 on the end of the rearwardly extending rocking arm or lever on said shaft 63. The slot 68 permits the pivotal movement of the part or element 52 without moving the shaft 3 but any rectilinear lengthwise movement is transferred by reason of the slot to the rock shaft 63. The part or element 52 and of the card receiver in position to engage the card between its side edges.

70 is an inking or transfer sheet in the form of a disk which is mounted on a stud 71 carried by the frame and projecting through a shield 72 located in the rear of the door of the case, this disk having a vertible portion extending along the shield and a horizontal position extending be tween the elements of the printing couple,

that is, the element 6 and the card holder which serves as a platen. This disk 70 is rotated by means of a feed roller 73 engaging the rear side of the upright portion of the disk and coacting with a compression roller 74: carried by a spring bracket 7 5 on the rear side of the door, Fig. 6.

The feed roller 73 is carried by a rearwardly extending lug 76 at one end of the shield '72 and is actuated by means of a pawl '77 carried by the handle lever 2%, Fig. l, and coacting with a ratchet wheel 7 8 on said roller.

In use the foreman or other authorized person having access to the interior of the recorder, opens the door of the case and positions the card holder in the proper guide and to the proper depth in the guide, the opening of the door permitting the en trance piece to be reversed.

My time recorder is particularly advantageous in that it is composed of few simple compactly arranged parts.

W hat I claim is:

1. In a time recorder, a frame formed with a plurality of guides, a barrier separating the guides and a card-holder movable in the guides and shiftable endwisely out of one guide and laterally around the barrier into alinement with the other guide and lengthwisely into the other guide, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In a time recorder, a frame formed with a plurality of guides, a barrier separating the guides, a printing element supported by the frame, and a card-holder having means engaging the guides, the card-holder being shiftable endwisely out of one guide laterally around the barrier into alinement with the other guide and then in a lengthwise direction into the other guide, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. In a time recorder, a frame formed with a supporting surface and with a plurality of parallel guides and a barrier separating the guides, and a printing element opposed tosaid sur aces. the card-holder having means for engaging the guides, the guides being arranged so that when the card-holder is engaged with one guide, a portion of the card in the holder is interposed between the printing element and said surface and when the cardholder is engaged with another guide another portion of the card is interposed between the printing element and said surface, the card-holder being removable lengtl wise out of one rude and laterally around the barrier into alinement with the other guide and lengthwisely into the latter guide, suostantially as and for the purpose set forth.

a. In a time recorder, a frame formed with a supporting surface, and with a groove opening through said surface, a printing clement supported by the frame and opposed to a portion of said surface, and a card holder having a tongue movable in the groove, the card holder overlying said surface and being arranged to hold the card with a portion thereof exposed to the printing element, substantially as and for the purpose described.

in a time recorder, aframe formed with a supporting surface, and with a pair of parallel grooves opening through said surface, a printing element supported by the frame and opposed to a portion of said surface, a card holder formed with a tongue for 'itting the grooves, the card holder being shiftable bodily for changing the tongue thereof from each groove to the other and thereby positioning the card holder so that different portions of the card are exposed to the printing element, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

6. In a time recorder, a frame formed with a plurality of guides, a card holder for engaging the guides and bein shif able bodily from one guide to the other, and a reversible entrance piece having an opening for the card, said entrance piece being shiftable from a position in which the opening thereof permits the card to be inserted in the holder when the holder is engaged with one of the guides, to a position in which the opening thereof permi s the card to be inserted in the holder when the holder is engaged with the other guide, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

7. In a time recorder, a casing, a printing element in the casing, an entrance piece secured to the casing and having an opening for permitting the card to be inserted in the machine in operative relation to the printing element, the entrance piece being reversible for controlling the positioning of the card relatively to the printing element, substantially as and for the purpose described.

8. In a time recorder, a frame formed with -a pair of guides, a card holder having means for engaging the guides and being shiftable bodily from one guide to the other, and an entrance piece having an opening through which the guide extends, the opening being of substantially the same width as the width of the card holder and being located nearer one end of said piece than the other, and the entrance piece being reversible to conform to the position of the card holder when the same is shift d from out of engagement with one guide and into engagement with the other guide, substantially and for the purpose specified.

9. In a time recorder, a frame formed with a plurality of guides, a card holder movable to different depths along the guides and being shift-able bodily from one guide to the other, and a catch common to both guides for holding the card holder in its adjusted position in either guide, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

10. in a time recorder, frame formed with a supporting surface and with a guide groove opening through said surface, a card holder adjustable along said surface and having a tongue movable in the groove, and a spring catch extending under the supporting surface and projecting into the groove through a side wall thereof, for engaging the tongue of the card holder for holding the card holder in its adjusted position, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

11. In a time recorder, a frame formed with a supporting surface and with a plurality of guides, a card holder adjustable along said surface and having means movable in the guides, the holder being shift-able bodily for transferring said means from one guide to the other, and a catch extending transversely of the guides beneath the plane of the card holder and having portions movable into and out of the guides for engaging said means and holding the card holder in its adjusted position, substantially as and for the purpose described.

12. In a time recorder, a frame formed with a supporting surface and with apair of parallel grooves opening through said surface, a printing element supported by the frame and opposed to a portion of said surface, a card holder adjustable along said surface and formed with a "tongue for fiuting the grooves, the card holder being shiftable bodily for changing the tongue thereof from one groove to the other and thereby changing the position of the card holder laterally relatively to the printing element, the card holder being also shiftable to different depths along the guides for changing the position of the card lengthwisely relatively to the printing element, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

13. In a time recorder, a printing mechanism including a manually operable member, a card holder adjustable to different positions into the frame, a loclr for normally holding said member from operation, and means for operating the lock, said means including a plurality of successively arranged shoulders corresponding in number and location to the positions to which the card holder is adjustable, said shoulders being located so that one is in the path of the card when the card is inserted to its full extent in the card holder, and the holder is in any one of its adjusted positions, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

14-. In a time recorder, printing mechanism including a manually operable member, a card holder adjustable to different positions into the frame, a lock for normally holding said member from operation, and means for operating the lock, said means including a plurality of successively arranged shoulders corresponding in number and location to the positions to which the card holder is adjustable, said shoulders being located so that one is in the path of the card when the card is inserted to its full extent in the card holder and the holder is in any one of its adjusted positions, the shoulders except the last being arranged to be moved successively one by one out of eflective position by the card holder when the same is adjusted at the difi'ercnt distances in the frame, and thus present the next shoulder in effective relation to the card, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

15. In a time recorder, a frame, printing mechanism including a manually operable member, a card holder adjustable to different distances in the frame relatively to the printing mechanism, means for normally locking said member from operation, and means for moving the locking means out of operative position including a part formed with a plurality of successively effective shoulders arranged in the path of the card holder and the card therein, each of the shoulders with the exception of the last being arranged to be moved by the card holder out of effective position relatively to the card in order to present the next shoulder in effective relation to the card, substantially as and for the purpose described.

16. In a time recorder, a frame, printing mechanism supported by the frame comprising a manually operable member, a card holder adjustable to diflerent distances in the frame relatively to the printing mechanism, a lock for normally holding said memher from movement, and means controlled in its operation by the card for moving the lock out of operative position, said means including a part pivoted to the frame and having a plurality of successively arranged shoulders arranged different distances from its pivot, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

17. In a time recorder, a frame, printing mechanism supported by the frame and comprising a manually operable member, a card holder adjustable to different distances in the frame relatively to the printing mechanism, and formed with a stop for limiting the movement of the card in the holder, a lock for normally holding the said member from movement, and means controlled in its operation by the card for moving the lock out of operative position, said means including a part having a plurality of successively arranged shoulders, each shoulder having a cam surface, and a stop surface arranged to engage the card when the same is inserted to its full extent into the card holder, the card holder having a surface for coacting with said cam surface of the shoulders, the surface of the holder being located in the front of the card stop of the holder and out of alinement therewith in a direction lengthwise of the holder, the stop surface of each shoulder being moved out of effective position when the cam surface thereof is engaged by the card holder, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

18. In a time recorder, a frame, printing mechanism including a manually operable member, a card holder adjustable to different distances in the frame relatively to the printing mechanism and having a stop for limiting the movement of the card into the holder, and a catch for determining different positions of the holderinto the frame, a lock for normally preventing operation of said member, and means arranged to be operated by the card for moving the lock out of operative position, said means including a pivoted part extending lengthwise of the path of movement of the card holder and being also shiftable rectilinearly by the card in the holder, said part having a plurality of successively effective shoulders corresponding in number and position to the position of the card holder in the frame, the shoulders arranged to be engaged by the card holder for moving said part on its pivot and hence shifting one shoulder out of effective position relatively to the card and each shoulder having a stop surface for engaging the card when the same is engaged with the shoulder of the card holder, the card moving said part rectilinearly, and means for transmitting such rectilinear movement to the lock, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

19. In a time recorder, printing mechanism including a manually operable member, a card holder, locking means for normally preventing operation of said member, and means for moving the locking means out of operative position including a part arranged in the path of movement of the card when the same is inserted to its proper position in the holder, the locking meansalso operating to stop the manually operable member in an intermediate position upon the removal of the card from said part after the operation of the manually operable member has been started, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

20. In a time recorder, printing mecha nism including a manually operable hammer, a card holder, locking means for normally preventing operation of the hammer, and means for moving the locking means out of operative position including a part ar ranged in the path of movement of the card when the same is inserted to its proper position in the card holder, the locking means also operating to hold the hammer in an intermediate position after the same has been partly operated and upon the displace ment of the card in the holder after the operation of the hammer has been started, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

21, In a time recorder, printing mechanism including a manually operable member having an arm associated therewith, a card holder, a lock having a pair of shoulders, one for normally engaging said arm and holding said member from operation, means for moving the lock out of operative position including a part arranged in the path of movement of the card when the same is inserted to its proper position in the holder, the second shoulder of the lock being arranged to engage said arm when the manually operable member is in an intermediate position and hence hold said member from movement when the card has been displaced in the card holder after the operation of the manually operable member has been started, substantially as and for the purpose described.

22. In a time recorder, printing mechanism including a hammer having an arm associated therewith, a card holder, a lock for normally preventing operation of the hammer, the lock having a pair of shoulders, one for normally engaging said arm and holding the hammer from movement and the other being arranged to engage said a rm when the hammer is in an intermediate position, means for moving the lock out of operative position including a part arranged in the path of movement of the card when the same is inserted to its proper position in the holder, the second shoulder of the lock operating to en age said arm and hold the hammer in an intermediate position upon the removal of the card from said part after the operation of the hammer has been started, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two attesting witnesses, at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, this 2-il-th day of February 1913.

KVILLIAM D. HAXVLEY.

lVitnesses L. M. BURTON, S. DAVIS.

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